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Statement of Building Fund. 
Cash balance and investment from last year .........0.0. eee eee £1668 9 8 
« received for interest on loans ..... alata: USES a es 180 17 6 
GLa RETA VOY TRIE A cine pra Chesaher cues Ieee ea Ra ere Les LOE O 
SMBSEN LION LISt! 2. [5 success e's sieles es = Betta dalaigis is PA 53415 0 
£2380, 1 9 
The Treasurer in account with the Canadian Institute. 
Dr. 
f@achmoalancenroml last year ys)... cess Cc tees oles «slo's 420 16 0 
Securities 2.....:.. Se IMR pa erg Me ta Sareea 1425 0 0 
Wnterest OM SCCUTITICS .c.5. ches ses cc Etat NEO gy & 
‘Cash received from Members ...... NOI seratatete ye 254 18 0 
Cmordournal ang Periodicals sso. 4. .okeee. oe. 47 16 17 
Smunallinmentary Grant 2. . cies. eccie + sie sels 250 0 O 
Ey As y i? a a | 
Cr. 
‘Cash paid on account of Journal (1858) ............ WAL Ue 
« “ “ (ists) Ae eae 227 1 82 
< ef Library and Museum ..... AONE XT 
ss “ ISH ELNYG DOUSTST ara om pum er te a geen 212 18 34 
“Securities ..... OAs READ er ere ey ASA ADE eee ee nt 1425 0 0 
Balance...... et Ce ICT I ISTERED CRC ER TECH Ie Pe Rear 602 4 5 
£579) 8) a) 
D. Crawrorp, Treasurer. 
AUDITORS’ REPORT, 1859. 
Toronto, 9th December, 1859. 
Hxamined Vouchers with Uash Book. Balance in hands of Treasurer six 
‘hundred and two pounds four shillings and five pence, correct, and securities for 
one thousand four hundred and twenty-five pounds exhibited. 
SAMUEL SPREULL, 
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Goerer R,. R. Cocksurn, t Andi Rut 
Before drawing their report to a close, the Council desire briefly to refer to a 
question which was brought under the notice of the Institute, during its Session 
of 1858-59, and on which a final report from a Committee of Ceuncil was sub- 
mitted to the Members at their last General Meeting. The subject of this report 
‘was the inconvenience which had been found to arise from the present appellation 
of the Society,—the name of Institute having led to its being confounded with 
other associations of a purely local character: insomuch that when the withdrawal 
-of the grants to Mechanics’ and other Jocal Institutes was under discussion in the 
Legislative Assembly, during their last Session, the Canadian Institute, from its 
similarity of name, was classed with the others, and had it not been for the 
timely exertions of some friends of the Association, would probably have been 
deprived of its annual grant. 
As the report alluded to, has been entered upon the minutes of the Society, 
the Council do not deem it necessary to refer to the subject beyond expressing 
